👻 Hier kommt das Plakat zur Ringvorlesung "Prompting Fascism. Medien/Theorien des neuen Faschismus" Mein Dank geht an Loisa Liebchen und Constantin Matti Roth für die Gestaltung 💛 Mehr Infos: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prompting-fa...

freu mich auf tag2 des #anglistiktag2025, should I ever get there. currently stuck on the RE1 in duisburg wegen, …checks notes…, böschungsbrand!

nrw mal wieder prime heute morgen was die züge angeht: en route to #anglistiktag2025 über köln, wuppertal-vohwinkel, essen. RB48/RE49, lasst mich nicht im stich!

saw ocean vuong and senthuran varatharajah in conversation at #LitCologne yesterday; one of my absolute favourites.

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

just deleted mine. will be re-uploading my syllabi on my personal website when I get a chance... there's other and better ways to be present online.

very very excited for this!! #babysfirstbritcult

ahhhhh so happy!! just signed the contract for my second book with EUP @edinburghup.bsky.social!! "Writing Black Atlantic Ecologies: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Black Life Writing beyond the Colonial Anthropocene" is now officially ✨✨ ✨ 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 ✨✨ ✨

A genuine joy to share our shortlist for the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis 2025. Congratulations to Maryam Aras, Christiane Frohmann, Miedya Mahmod, Manja Präkels, and Ruth-Maria Thomas! tucholsky-gesellschaft.de/kurt-tuchols...

There's a discount code for pre-orders! If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use: PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me! utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/2

Fabian Saul hat Peter Weiss‘ Die Ästhetik des Widerstands für ein Hörspiel adaptiert und von Autor:innen wie Asal Dardan, Theresia Enzensberger, Moshtari Hilal, Enis Maci, Miedya Mahmod, Senthuran Varatharajah kommentieren lassen. Und fragt: Wie kann Kunst das Utopische denken? Es ist hervorragend.

Hugos were last night, and just grabbed the winner of Best Related Work and read on a train journey - it's a quick read, tracing fascist tropes and fascists through sci-fi. Especially good on fascists readings of works and also proto-fascist nerd-wish-fulfilment Mutational Romances.

My lecture "Literature of Unsettlement" is now out with @blnreview.bsky.social both in GER and EN. This is an article series comprising 4 episodes. Part 1 &2 are now available. Part 3 & 4 will follow in fall. Many thanks @samirsellami.bsky.social for the editing& all blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

summer term done! 👏👏👏 my first as junior prof @unitrier.bsky.social, and it was a really really good one. now onto this 348-page baby!! in collab with wonderful @dependencybonn.de colleagues. (other book baby needs to be patient a little while longer… 😅)

I went on the NYPL's podcast and talked about Octavia Butler and other stuff! Listen here, or on any podcast app. www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts

Arles photography festival - From moving family reunions to voguing drag stars, this year’s Recontres d’Arles is promising a host of ‘disobedient’ images. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This, by @owenjones.bsky.social should especially resonate in Germany where the sanctioning of protesting genocide is unparalleled in Europe. Where climate protestors are treated as criminals and are compared to terrorists by politicians. In reality of course … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

write like nobody’s watching

Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it. A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

after a couple of stressful weeks (thanks to a nasty flu and the ensuing admin/email pile-up), I've finally had a chance to look at the first anonymous reviews for my second book, and I am just so moved and humbled by how closely, carefully (and caringly) these scholars engaged with my work... 🙏🙏🙏

Releaseday! Jetzt überall lieferbar: „‚Die ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand.“ Literatur und Kunst zur Einwanderung ins Nachkriegsdeutschland“ hg. v. @mahaelhissy.bsky.social. Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/die-gan...

This article is going to get me to try bleak house even though my father, an English teacher, specifically warned me against it when I was a child, and I haven’t read Dickens in 25 years and I’d rather read Trollope

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

To Spring From Salted Earth is edited by Wanini Kimemiah, as part of the Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship (2023/2024) and "brings together poetry, essays, visual art, storytelling and sound to explore a profound question: How does it feel to be outside in the natural world?" #decolonialecologies

“In The Emperor of Gladness, Vuong eschews a traditional narrative arc, where decency and redemption are reached through the pursuit of the American dream; here, kindness and compassion are paramount…”

I think all the time about what absolute transparency would look like with peer review in which people had to be accountable to what they've said or have to have those very words attached to their scholarly profile

‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024 Forensic Architecture "examining the systematic targeting of orchards and greenhouses by Israeli forces since October 2023... exacerbated the ongoing catastrophic famine" #EnvHist #Gaza #sociology

Kaum zu glauben: #IchBinHanna wird heute 4! 😱🎈🥳🎁🎂 Viel hat sich bewegt seit dem 10.6.2021. Viel gibt es noch zu tun. 1 Sache bleibt aber unverändert: Mit @drkeichhorn.bsky.social, @kubon.bsky.social & Euch allen Wissenschaftspolitik machen ist das allergrößte Geschenk! 3 Wünsche in #ArbeitInDerWiss:

“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

Allein dass Weimer die rechtspopulistische Cancel-Legende der "verbannten" Venus-Skulptur als Beleg eines angeblich links-feministischen Kulturkampfes zeigt, dass ihm die Kompetenz für das Amt des Kulturstaatsministers fehlt. Der Reihe nach 🧵

Meine Gedanken zu ozeanischen Grenzen und #WarsanShire morgen bei der Ringvorlesung “Grenzen – Grenzräume – Grenzbegegnungen” @unitrier.bsky.social. Alle Infos, auch zur Online-Teilnahme, hier: www.uni-trier.de/studium/weit...

Black Feminism on the Edge, our @dukepress.bsky.social book series, has 2 new titles coming out - Dana Murphy and Justin Mann. Want to chat more about it? Book ideas you want to discuss? Contact us! (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) dukeupress.edu/series/black...

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.

When I started my PhD, I had never heard of epistemic decolonisation. Then I came across 2 books that changed my life. One was "Decolonizing Methodologies" by Linda Tuhiwai Smith; the other was "Decolonising the Mind" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Rest in piece Prof. Ngũgĩ, may your works live long.

application deadline is 1st June - still time to apply!

Die neue Folge "Wem gehört Deutschland" mit Sasha Marianna Salzmann ist jetzt raus. & ich muss echt sagen: das ist ein echt starkes Gespräch geworden. Über Desintegration damals & heute, Erinnerungskultur & die (Selbst)Instrumentalisierung von Juden*Jüdinnen. open.spotify.com/episode/6tE3...

did it hurt? when i cut your word count down by half

Ein wichtiger Thread über ein wichtiges Thema. Je nach Studie und Metaanalyse sind 20 - 33 % der Studierenden von einer manifesten psychischen Erkrankung betroffen. Als Studierende zu studienerschwerenden Beeinträchtigungen befragt wurden, gaben 53 % an, dass es an einer psych. Erkrankung liege.

An Indigenous Theory of Water: @biidaasamose.bsky.social on Rivers as Teachers

🎭 Die Hölle ist leer, alle Teufel sind hier... Die Premiere von “STURM” (von William #Shakespeare mit Ergänzungen von Sharon Dodua Otoo und in Regie von Dagmar Schlingmann) findet im Staatstheater #Braunschweig (Kleines Haus) am kommenden Samstag, den 17. Mai um 19:30 Uhr statt #Theater

"I often consider the flexibility of language... pleasureful, treacherous, devastating... I am writing about the beauty of sunlight and the sight of my beloved dog’s face in the same language that a DHS head uses to call for more rapid & 'efficient' deportations, an 'Amazon Prime for Human Beings.'"

Very much enjoyed speaking to Ambient Receiver for this interview, where we discussed, poetry, ecology, and the radical difference of the nonhuman! 🍃🔥🐍 www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas

not me screenshotting this to put on my slides for tomorrow’s undergrad intro lecture on “the rise of the novel”

Show us your writing process in a gif.

The 11th Biennial EASLCE (@easlce.bsky.social) conference, entitled “‘Join the #OrcaUprising!’: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, will be held at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) in April 2026. Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.

Pleased to have contributed this article about 'Ariadne', an enslaved girl in 19th c. Barbados. It explores the methodological + epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean for life writing about the enslaved. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GYMFT...

very proud to be included in a brand new special issue edited by Pia Wiegmink and @jennyleetsch.bsky.social! My paper explores the memoirs of enslaved or formerly enslaved members of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

V. proud of this issue which is, in more ways than one, a culmination of my postdoc work at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de: have a look at the issue here <https://lnkd.in/eB6_Egsa> and enjoy our open-access intro and of course all of the fantastic articles.